6 February 1981, St 249/50 [9.2] – Secretariat. Requests from the National Democratic Party of Afghanistanand the Social Party of Yemen for assistance in travelling to the 26th Plenum of the Soviet CP (4 pp). [R 6 February 1981, St 249-50]

10 February 1981 (no number) [1.4] – Request from ANATOLY DOBRYNIN, Soviet ambassador to the USA. ARMAND HAMMER has offered to buy Lenin’s “One step forward, Two steps back” and present it as a gift to BREZHNEV. Decision to refuse this gift (3 pp). [R 10 February 1981]

10 February 1981, St 249/69 [2.2] – Secretariat. State awards for the employees of the KGB Central Research Institute for Special Technologies (3 pp). [R 10 February 1981, St 249-69]

17 February 1981, St 250/71, [8] – Secretariat. Soviet participation in the session of the Organization for Solidarity with Asia and Africa (8 pp). [R 17 February 1981, St 250-71]

17 February 1981, St 250/69 [8] – Secretariat. Use of Aeroflot to transport foreign representatives to events held by the International Democratic Federation of Women, as requested by the Soviet Women’s Committee (7 pp). [R 17 February 1981, St 250-69]

17 February 1981, St 250/9 [1.3] – Secretariat. Letters from ordinary people to the government about shortages of bread; memo from CHERNENKO (19 pp). [R 17 February 1981, St 250-9]

20 May 1981, St 184/68 [8] – Secretariat. About approval to send abroad the tourists’ groups consisting of members of several Soviet organizations dedicated to “Friendship and Cultural Exchange with Foreign Counties”. (… “this type of tourism is the most effective as a form of propaganda…”) [R not available online]

28 December 1981, 2965-A [3.4] – KGB report. Sakharov’s daughter-in-law is leaving the USSR to join her husband. SAKHAROV is in hospital following a hunger strike in protest against KGB actions to keep his daughter-in-law from emigration.. Decision reached to keep SAKHAROV in hospital longer to prevent his participation in the Pugwash Conference. [R 28 December 1981, 2965-A]

31 December 1981 (no number) [3.3] – Decisions of the Central Committee (1960-1980) to deprive individuals of citizenship for their anti-Soviet activities: a total of 15 people from VALERY TARSIS to YURY ORLOV. [R 31 December 1981]